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State's population 1%. Jewish children were driven from public schools. In Bavaria, Baden, Thuringia, Württemberg, Hesse, the Nazis forbade kosher slaughtering of meat. The National Government forbade any Jew to leave Germany without special police permission stamped on his passport. Chief Engineer Walter Schaeffer of the Rundfunk Wireless Organization was dismissed from his post, committed suicide. Albert Einstein's bank deposits ($5,955 in securities, $1,191 in cash) were confiscated. The Professor announced that he would renounce his German citizenship...
...Today Thuringia is one of the federated German republics. Nonetheless, Her Royal Highness the widowed Grand Duchess Feodora of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is still very much alive. Last week the Premier of Thuringia yielded gallantly to the regal Duchess who is 41. She sailed sedately into the Grand Ducal Mausoleum (where Poet Goethe lies buried near her husband) on the arm of no less a personage than the Chancellor of all Germany, pale, ascetic, thin-lipped Dr. Heinrich Bruning, 47. As Democracy thus squired Autocracy to the tomb of Genius, a witness was Comrade Anatoly Lunacharsky representing the Soviet Power...
This view was doubly significant because Councilor Goerke was speaking not only of the insurrection in Berlin but also of a simultaneous Fascist setback in Thuringia. The reason why Leader Hitler was at Weimar last week, instead of at Munich, his usual headquarters, was a Socialist-Fascist tug of war in the Thuringian Diet...
...ended in a Socialist victory forcing out of office Dr. Wilhelm Frick, notorious for his outrageous Fascistizing of the Ministry of Interior of Thuringia. Not content with expelling Socialists from the police force and replacing them by Fascists, Dr. Frick flew to such extremes as his decree forcing Thuringian school children to pray every morning for abolition of the Young Plan and the Treaty of Versailles-two Fascist platform planks. That Dr. Frick was forced out last week marked a Hitler defeat, but a defeat which should remove from public notice a Fascist so rabid and reckless...
...even mention these live political issues: 1) Shall Germany build a second "pocket battleship" like the famed Ersatz Preussen? (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928) 2) Along what lines will the Government administer the new Defense-of-the-Reich Act? (TIME, March 31) 3) What is to be done about Thuringia's Minister of Interior, redoubtable Dr. Frick, who continues to defy the central German Government about reactionary military organizations and such matters? 4) Along what lines does the Foreign Office propose to work out satisfactory commercial rapprochement with Poland on the basis of the new Polish-German Treaty...